The winners of the Crossword Book Awards were announced on December 3 at a ceremony in Mumbai. Winners were judged in two broad categories of Jury Awards and Popular Choice Awards, the latter determined entirely by readers’ votes.
Shanta Gokhale, writer, translator and theatre critic was given the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Here is the list of winners:
Jury Awards
Fiction: Great Eastern Hotel, Ruchir Joshi, HarperCollins Publishers India
Nonfiction: Gods, Guns, and Missionaries: The Making Of The Modern Hindu Identity, Manu S Pillai, Penguin Random House India
Children’s Books: The Wall Friends Club, Varsha Seshan, illustrated by Denise Antao, HarperCollins Publishers India
Business and Management: Just a Mercenary?: Notes From My Life and Career, Duvvuri Subbarao, Penguin Random House India
Translation: The Day the Earth Bloomed, Manoj Kuroor, translated from Malayalam by J Devika, Bloomsbury India
Popular Choice Awards
Fiction: Too Good To Be True, Prajakta Koli, HarperCollins Publishers India
Nonfiction: Shah Rukh Khan, Mohar Basu, HarperCollins Publishers India
Children’s Books: Grandpa’s Bag of Stories, Sudha Murty, Penguin Random House India
Business and Management: Ratan Tata: A Life, Thomas Mathew, HarperCollins Publishers India
Mind, Body and Spirit: Enlightenment: A New Beginning, Sadhguru, Penguin Random House India
